Taboo
Subtitle: Corporeal Secrets in Nineteenth-Century France
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 157
ISBN-13: 9781907975554
Subjects: Human body in literature; French literature, history and criticism; Taboo
Description: This wide-ranging text uses the notion of the taboo as a powerful means of interpreting representations of the body. The hidden bodies of realist texts reveal their secrets in unexpected ways.